FDA agrees to let patients get controversial drug

8 families put faith in brain tumor treatment that oncologists deride

9:11 PM,
Mar. 22, 2014

Stanislaw Burzynski

Written by

Liz Szabo
| USA Today

The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to allow a handful of cancer patients to receive unapproved drugs from a controversial Texas doctor, but only if they can find another physician to administer them.

The drugs are made by Houston physician Stanislaw Burzynski, who was the subject of a USA Today investigation last year.

Burzynski has claimed for more than 36 years to be able to cure certain hard-to-treat brain tumors with drugs he calls antineoplastons. The National Cancer Institute notes that Burzynski has never published definitive evidence that his drugs cure cancer or even ...